From: Pete Yadlowsky <pmy@...>
Date: 2004-01-09T05:58:19+09:00
Subject: Re: block delimiting

On Thursday 08 January 2004 03:46 pm, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> I chose not to learn Python because of the crap called syntactically
> significant whitespace.

I avoided Python also, for the same reason. Then one day I decided to dive in 
and learn it anyway in spite of myself. And I found I rather liked it. The 
taboo of significant whitespace turned out to be a big non-issue very early 
in my study. I'd been coding that way for years anyway, just with superfluous 
block delimiters of various sorts. Python made them unnecessary. It's my hope 
that Ruby might keep them that way. Then it will be perfect.

> Python's blocking solves the problem of readable
> code the wrong way.

What's the right way?


-- 
Pete Yadlowsky
ITC Unix Systems Support
University of Virginia